"You're kidding me!!! Inuyasha's an adoptive parent!" Kagome screamed. "Actually, not officially. Shippo needed a protector and a substitute parent, so Inuyasha's been getting him food and a forest home so that once he groes up he'll be able to servive on his own. Inuyasha asked me for assistance with raising the young Kitsune. I just never expected that he was who Inuyasha was bringing home. That Kits got his transformation down to a near perfect. I thought that he was a human, maybe a son of one of the workers for the shrine, it really surprised me. Actually, he told me that the reason why he chose me to help was because of the fact that we know demons exist and, he commented that I seemed to do a nice job raising you and Sota." Asami explained to the still stunned Kagome. "Wow, I must admit, that's...um, not what I was expecting. " Kagome said in reply to her mothers shocking revelation. "So, Shippo was just being really rude and Inuyasha was trying to exact proper punishment." Kagome sighed. "Your right, however, maybe trying to bash the Kit's head in is taking it a bit too far." Asami said as she sighed. "Actually mom." Kagome began, "It takes a lot for a demon to feel anything. Inuyasha bashing the Kit in the head probably hurts less than a spanking for a human baby. I really overreacted by thinking of Shippo under human standards, I almost rewarded Shippo for bad actions." Kagome wispered as she sighed regretfully. "Hey, don't worry about it. Shippo wants to give you a present." Inuyasha's voice sounded from the door. "Comming!" Kagome said as she walked out to stop abruptantly ar the window. "Is that snow!!?" Kagome gasped. "Yeah, Shippo felt bad for getting you in trouble, and hey, it's christmas and all, Shippo asked me to teach him the ice spell so it's going to be lightly snowing for around three days, actually, it'll stop around Christmas." Inuyasha explained to the startled girl. They walked outside to see that Shippo had gone into the storage room, grabbed a sled and was dragging it around in the falling snow. "Uhhh, Inuyasha?" Miroku and Sango's voice said from behind them. "It's been an hour since we called our parents, so, uh, if we're going to eat with you then you might want to come on!" "But dinner got ruined in the fire!" Kagome gasped at the thought of having to cook more. "Hey, screw it okay. Come to my place, we can get some dinner there. Asami, GRANDFATHER!" he called trying to get the old man's attention. "Huh!?" the mentioned man gasped as he woke up from his nap. "Are you interested in comming to my place for dinner?" Inuyasha repeated. "Fine, Fine. If Kagome and Asami want to." the man said as he walked up behind Inuyasha. "Okay then! Give me thirty seconds to find something...here we go!" he said as he pulled out what looked like a Palm Pilot but had a strange box attached to the back with a small fold-out antanna. "Lets see, okay. Send message......now!" Inuyasha continued as he hit a few buttons and a purple portal appeared in front of them. "How'd you do that!?" Asami gasped at the vortex. "I have a wireless connection with the computer at my place. It projects a portal here." He explained as Kagome, Miroku, and Sango jumped through. After a bit of reassurence that they woulden't die, the others jumped through. In seconds, they were on a large grassy landscape that looked like a giant garden. "Do you live in a cave or something?" Sota asked as he continued to walk forward even though Inuyasha motioned for everyone to stop walking. He wondered why he should stop when he walked right into something that felt like a wall, then he fell on his butt. He pressed his hand forward and it looked like he was pushing on a wall, but there was nothing there. He leant ageanst it as Inuyasha, not noticing the boy's antics, said a few words and the wall dissapeared sending the boy back to his butt on the ground. When he turned around, he froze. There was a huge castle where there used to be a garden. "Nice place." He murmered as he stood up in complete awe. "Okay, how did this get into your posession? I didn't think that demons had castles or private dimensions." Asami asked the now sighing hanyou. "Where does this sound familiar?" Inuyasha said to Kagome. Two hours later after many demon lord discussions and questions. "Care to come in?" He offered to his very curious guests. Once they were all inside and seated at there table spots, another Inu-youkai walked in. "Hello Inchine, it's been a while. How are you my friend?" Inuyasha asked the demon as everyone got their menus. "Fairly well. With only Myoga here, I don't cook much anymore so I might be a bit rusty. Where were you this past year?" Inchine asked. "Would you believe that Kikyo got me sealed again. God, the dead just refuse to stay dead these days. Personally, the tree was more comfortable than the brick wall that I was attached too for around a year. Oh, these are Kagome, Asami, Her father, and you know about Shippo. They're my guests for dinner. You don't have to go all out with the meal, just the basic." Inuyasha told Inchine. "You mean that Kikyo pinned you before? How old are you anyway?" Kagome asked Inuyasha. "Well," he responded, "It depends how you ask." At this Kagome got a little bit pissed off. "What, do we have to say 'please' or something!?" Kagome rather loudly asked the Hanyou. "Woah! That's not what I meant. It depends on you you word it." He continued and Kagome got even more pissed. "FINE! How many wears has it been since the day of your birth!?" The very pissed off girl retorted. "Hmmm, I was born five hundred and sixty seven years ago. However, If you were to ask how many years that I have been actually alive, it would be sixteen. You see, My father created a portal to take you five-hundred years into the future. Only demons of my fathers bloodline can use it. Once my brother decided to go through and terrorize the cities now, I stole the portal's energy and hid it in a well. It just so happens to still exist, it's that nice abandoned well that's on your property is the link between now and fivehundred years in the past. Only I, and anyone that has a certain type of magical power can go through. However, no Miko's from the past can pass through and the only one in this time that can would be Kagome. In all of the years that I've been here, I haven't felt an energy quite like hers, shoot, I bet that, if trained, she could kill demons with evil hearts just by tutching them. That's why they want to kill you so badly, you are now considered a major threat, not to mention that your a friend of mine and that I've got more than a few grudges ageanst me from some very powerful youkai. That's why after this meal, Kagome, you're comming with me and we're going to do some private training. Oh, show your parents the fire spell. The old man would probably be happy to have one of the, if properly trained, one of the most powerful Miko's in existance for a grand doughter." Inuyasha finished his speech as everyone's faces turned to Kagome and jaws dropped. "Everyone, before we finish this conversation, how about we get started on ordering our food. I believe Inchine here is getting a bit impascient. It's a list of what he can make, just ask for anything that looks good to you." And with that, everyone ordered. "Kagome, your Miko side and your Youkai side are anything but at rest with eachother. My mother was a Miko and a princess and my father was one of the most powerful demons in the world. Needless to say, the only time my two sides agree is during battle when the only inten is to kick the other guy's ass. Other than that, I'm living a waging battle inside of myself unless I can keep my powers ballanced. I'm close to being at ballance so I won't die and you're naturally human so it can't kill you, you might feel like you've got a headache or something but the link that that youkai set should keep our bodies in a ballance. Since it's my blood that you got, if you get too angry and are outside my energy range, your Youkai blood will get pissed, Just push the other blood aside and take over. In other terms, you'll transform into a Hanyou, if you get really angry or your life is endangered, you'll transform into a full youkai. It's terrible. Your body isn't made for the energy and emotions of a youkai and you'll probably go on a blood-lusting killing spree that's completely out of your control. I transformed once when I was with two of my only friends. Some youkai smelt me, I'm hated wherever I go by everyone, demons hate me for being half human and same goes for humans. Well. when I was smelt out, the demon was disgusted that two full demons would be within ten feet of me. He killed one of my friends and wounded the other. Having to watch this, I was scared for my life at how easily my friends were cut down, I was only ten, it only took that demon taking one step toward me to send me ofer the edge. I transformed and slaughtered my opponent. However, I coulden't handle the emotions and went around slaughtering everyone who crossed my path for three days until I finally lost consciousness from loss of blood from a wound and transformed back. I coulden't believe myself, I was ststaring at the blood of innocents splashed all over myself. Since then, I've alwayse carried the Tetsusaiga with me since it is built to protect humans, therefor it supresses my youkai blood. That's why, under my concealing spell, I always have the Tetsusaiga strapped to my back. Bit hard trying to look normal sitting back with a sword attached to your back." Inuyasha continued to explain as Inchine brought in the food. "Wow, this is great." Sota said with a full mouth. "I agree, you've outdone yourself Inchine." Inuyasha said and it was the last thing said as everyone dug into their meal. "Okay, anyone for desert or anything?" Inchine asked as he walked into the room with the desert menus and handed them out. "Yes!" everyone said in unison as Inchine just chuckled. "Looks like you brought a hungry crowd with you, Lord Inuyasha." Inchine wispered as he neared the demon lord 'should be'. Inuyasha just chuckled a bit before desert was brought out. "Good, Kagome, would you please come with me and we'll continue your training. Asami, when would you like her back home?" Inuyasha asked the girls mother. "Whenever is fine." was the response. "Could she stay the night? She'll be back in time for school tomarrow and I need it to be dark for her training with the Fire Wave Spell, which you still haven't shown the, Kagome." At this, Kagome held out her hand and a blue flame appeared. She tossed the flame to Sota who was surprised not to be burned. Then she reabsorbed the flame. "Wow! Neat! I need to learn that for my camping trips!" Sota yelled in glee. "Sorry, you need to have special powers to use it. Even if you did, you'd faint from using too much energy before it even took a solid form." Kagome informed her younger brother who soon went off to the castle's gym to play some ball. "hey, could we spend the night too? We really don't have time to get home. Do you have inter-dimensional phone service?" Sango asked the Hanyou. "Nyaa, suffer the wrath of your parents!" Inuyasha joked, "The phones down the hall to the left." And with that, Sango and Miroku headed down the hall. "You never answered, can Kagome stay and I'll have them to school since I have already re-enrolled." Inuyasha asked the two adults left in the room. "Okay. I trust that your not a pervert or anything so I'm not worried. Anyway, you are her brother now." Asami said as she nodded in reply to the question. "Good, care to stay a while longer or anything. It is getting a bit dark in your dimension so you might want to head home." Inuyasha said to Asami and the old man. "I agree, it's almost seven. Sure, Kagome can stay as long as she's at school in time tomarrow." Asami told Inuyahsha as he led them to the portal room and oppened the door. "See that gold door over there? Juat open the door and walk through the vortex to arrive in your living room. Oh yeah, take this." He said as he tossed them a small remote control. "If your in the range of a portal, when you push the red button on that control, the portal will activate and will carry you to the center of this room, from there, you just follow the signs on the doors to get where you want to go. You'll see a glowing spot on the ground where a portal entrance is. Only Miko's and their relatives can see the glowing spots, however, anyone can activate a portal with that control unit. If anyone takes it, tell me, I will have to deactivate it. Do you see that small keyboard and the view screen. When you push the activate button, you'll be prompted to enter a password that must be kept secret. The code for that control is 4231. Bye." he explained as he oppened the door marked 'Higurashi Residence' and they walked in. Then Inuyasha closed the door and noticed that Miroku and Sango were standing behind Kagome. "hey, how much did you hear about the remote controls you two?" He asked the two. "Pretty much everything." Was their response. "Good, then these are yours." he said as he tossed them both a control unit. "Miroku, your code is 1342. Sango, yours is 9087. You already heard how to use them. Now, If you'll all follow me, I have a gift for you two, Miroku and Sango. And with that the four left down a hallway. Inuyasha lit his way using a ball of fire, so Kagome did the same and tossed two to the others. They walked up to a door labeled 'weaponry' and Inuyasha let everyone in. Everyone but Inuyasha froze. This room was filled with everything from swords to scope rifles. Inuyasha picked up a sash from a shelf and tied it around his weist. The sash had five loops in it. One was taken up by something that looked like a light saber in the Star Wars movies. Inuyasha grabbed a sword off the wall that looked a lot like the Tetsusaiga but didn't have a warn handle. He attached the Tutsusaiga and the regular sword to his left side on his sash and attached the 'Lightsaber thingie' to the right side of his sash. Then he walked over to the wall and grabbed a huge boomerang with a strap on it and a golden staff with gold rings on the top decoration. "Miroku, Sango. These belonged to some friends of mine who died in the battle ageanst Naraku. Actually, it's only fair to inform you that you two are their reincarnations. They even have the same names as you do. I thin k that these could work best in your hands." Inuyasha informed the two as they inspected their new weapons. "Oh, there's also Kirara. She's a fire-cat youkai who was the past Sango's retainer." He continued then he bellowed, "KIRARA!" A small, two tailed, cat walked in that had odd markings on her face. Her eyes were a blood-red with dark blue slits for puppils. "Sango, this is Kirara. Kirara, say hello to your new master, or, should I say, your old master reborn." Inuyasha said to the cat before it jumped into Sango's arms. Kirara meowed happily then purred as she snuggled closer to Sango. "I feel like I know her from someplace." Sango said, more to herself, although it came out aloud. "You seem so familiar." She continued to muse until Inuyasha inturrupted her thoughts. "Hey, why don't you and Miroku head out into the garden for a while. The sun starts to set here at nine so be in by then." He said to the two in front of him, then he turned to Kagome. "Come on. We've got a lot to do and so little time to do it in. If things go smoothly, you'll have ice and a bit of thnder spells under your belt for your training. After that, we'll work on the Tenkyoken." he continued as he led her to one of the towers. "Inuyasha, am I a reincarnation of someone you knew?" Kagome asked as they walked into a room that looked like a moden-day gym. "Actually," Inuyasha responded, "That's one of the main reasons that I brought you here. You are, as hard as it is to believe, Kikyo's reincarnation." "What! How, she was alive when she attacked you at the school. How can there be two of the same soul?!" A very shocked Kagome screamed. "You're right, there can't be two of the same soul. According to Myoga, you've only got ninety percent of a soul. Kikyo's copy has the other ten percent." "But I'm not like that, am I? Will I be in the future?" "No. Kikyo used to be a very nice woman. Actually, I thought that I loved her. She was the Miko of a nearby village and was in charge of the Sacred Jewel. The jewel would be purified if used by a demon for a noble cause. I was willing to make it transform me into a full human so that the jewel would be gone and I could be with Kikyo. However, the day that she was supposed to bring me the jewel, Naraku, disguised as me, came to her and mortally wounded her. Then he took the jewel to the village, put it back in the shrine, then came to me under the disguise of Kikyo. He fired three arrows at me and tricked me into believing that Kikyo had betrayed me. I thought that she might use the jewel and tarnish it's curren pureness. I ran to the village where the wounded Kikyo was and tried to get the jewel from the shrine. The real Kikyo had the villagers attack me, believing that I was trying to steal the jewel. Let's just say that a few huts were destroyed by me, so I now can add 'terrorizing a village' to my resume. I got the jewel and ran. I was in the woods when I heard Kikyo behind me. She had an arrow armed and was aiming it at me. She told me to die and fired it. It pierced my heart and pinned me to a tree, that very sacred tree in your yard. I lost the jewel and my soul was sealed. Kikyo, unknown to me, later died of the wound caused by Naraku, believing herself betrayed and tricked. Her body was in no condition to cast spells so the spell only partially worked. I was sealed in suspended animation for fifty years before I managed to break free. That's when I learned about Kikyo's death. Later, an ogress named Orasue desecrated Kikyo's grave and stole her remains. She used those remains, along with her dark magic, to create a copy of Kikyo. She tried to kill me for betraying her when her soul started to erupt out of her body. That soul was what was keeping her alive, but the hatred for me stayed and kept her alive. as Orasue said before Kikyo killed her, the once pure maiden has become a shell kept alive only by her hate for me. That hate was around ten percent of her soul so the part that erupted out of her was reincarnated into you. Kikyo now knows that I didn't betray her, however, since a soul is not ment to be brought back like that, she can't remove the hat that she felt when she died. She knows I'm innocent but she can't remove the thoughts of betrayel from when she died. It's not her fault that she's forced to live like this. That's why I want to kill Naraku, it should put her soul to rest. I got back the jewel and escaped to the future and spent a year or so here to learn human customs before I enrolled in the school where you met me." Inuyasha finished his story. All that Kagome could say was 'Wow.' On this note, Kagome started her lessons on how to perform the Ice Wave spell. Within the hour, Kagome had made an unnatural winter within the gym with around a foot of snow and even an ice-rink in one corner. Inuyasha extuinguished the fire places in the gym and lit them with his blue flame that didn't release until commanded to. The two left the gym and went to get on some warmer clothes from Inuyasha's living quarters (Kagome wore some of Inuyasha's mother's winter clothes), then headed outside to get Miroku and Sango and ducked just in time to avoid being hit with an abnormally large boomerang. "Ahhhh!!! Watch where you're swinging that thing!!!" Kagome yelled as Inuyasha pulled her to the ground to stop her from being decapitated on ly to have it hit him in the back of the head and send him flying to the ground on its return trip. Kagome, Sango, and Miroku walked up to the grounded hanyou who just stood up, dusted himself off, informed them of their temporary 'winter-wonderland' in the gym and left. However the three onlookers noticed that his normally silver/white hair had a hint of crimson to it and that there was a definate lump where the hit was. "Ouch..." was all Shippo said as they headed to the gym. After showing the others where the gym was, Kagome headed up to Inuyasha's living quarters which was the direction that he was going. Apon arrival, she knocked at the door but got no answer so she slowly walked in. She could hear water from the bathroom so she walked over to see how Inuyasha's head was. She knocked. "Come in." Kagome heard Inuyasha's voice. She did as she said and prayed that Inuyasha wasn't in the shower or anything like that, but he had told her mom that he woulden't do something like that, so she walked in and stared at the sight that greeted her. Inuyasha had his inner and outer yukata off and they were tossed on the floor. He had his hair tossed over his shoulders with it dipped in the sink. "Damn white hair! Stains so easily!" She heard him curse under his breath. "Hey, want some help?" She asked him. "Naa, I've almost got it. Blood on white hair were not meant to combine." He said as he stood up, tossed his white hair back to it's usual position then dropped the rest of his concealing spell revealing his true form once again. Then he grabbed a towel, wrapped it around his wet hair, then tied on his yukatas where they used to be before turning to her. "Why aren't you with the others?" He asked her. "I was curious how your head was. It looked like it really hurt a lot so I came to see how you were doing." "Oh, hurts, yes. problem, no. I'm a demon, it takes more than that to hurt me a lot." Inuyasha said as he walked over to kagome and put one of his arms an her shoulders. "However, that boomerang is made of demon bone so it can, if used corectly, cut anything in it's path apart. I just hope that once she learns to through that thing properly that she has good aim. I'm gonna have one heck of a headache if she dosen't have good aim. i wonder if being the reincarnation of a demon huntress will give you all of their powers, if so, she'll be throwing beams around in no time. Nothing that can match the Tenkyoken or Sekeha Tenkyoken, heaven forbid, but enough to hurt. You'll be able to melt almost anything once you master the fire spell. You'll also be able to turn things to ice and make ice in differant forms. Watch this." he said as walkedtoward a large stone wall. "Fire Wall!" he yelled as he outstretched his arm and a solid wall of fire erupted out of his hand and hit the stone wall then dissaprared. Then he pointed his hand ot the ground and yelled, "Ice Beam!" and a beam of ice shot out of his hand. The ice formed a spear on the ground which Inuyasha picked up, threw, then melted with a Fire Beam spell. "That's what you'll be able to do shortly." he said ad he lowered his smoking palm. "Wow. Can I try to do that Ice Beam spell to make things in the gym." The excited girl beside him asked. "Sure, but don't aim at a human while firing it off. That ice can stop someone's heart, not to mention that if you mess up, you might end up sending an icicle through someone. First though, I want you to train with it on me first before you go to making things. Two hours later, Kagome walked into the gym. "Inuyasha and I haave a great idea. Let's have a snowball fight. We can use Ice Spells to make forts and snowballs. So, do ya wanna'?" Kagome asked the people in the gym who were drinking hot-kokoa that Inchine gave them. "Yeah! That sounds fun. How about Me and Kagome vs. Miroku and Inuyasha. That way we both have ice spell users." Sango happily yelled. "I just got an idea. Let's add a bit of a terrain. ICE WAVE!!!" Inuyasha yelled the last part as spikes of clear ice erupted from the ground. Then Kagome and Inuyasha went to seperate sides of the gym and made walled forts for the home bases. "Good, we're ready to go." Both said at once when two identicle forts were complete. "The rules." Inuyasha began, "Are very simple. This is a simple two-on-two style game. Snow can be made into anything. No outside weapons. Only spells can be used. I will only use my Tenkyoken to form a shield to block. The line of melted snow is the divider line, no one can cross it. Shippo, the line please." And at that, Shippo used a fire spell to melt a line of snow between the two forts. Inuyasha unclipped his weapons sash and hung it on the wall, Sango and Miroku did the same to their items and then, the two teams ran to their bases. Both spell users created a pile of snowballs and the game was on. Kagome found out the hard way that Inuyasha was very good at throwing from long distances so it was a very good idea not to taunt him that he can't hit you. Kagome found out that she could hit moving targets quite well and that she was enjoying this more than her brother ever could. 'must be the demon's love for a good challenge.' she mused as she chucked a snowball at Inuyasha's head. He managed to duck although, he was distracted from watching where he was running and ran clear into an ice spike and being knocked, temporarely, out cold. The ice spike shattered under the impact and Inuyasha's form was pelted with snowballs untill he got up and ran behind his wall, covered in snow from the girls' attack. That's when an idea hit him. "Ice Storm!" his voice echoed as harsh wind and tons of snow billowed around the room like a terrible snow storm. Then he held his arms into the air and shot beams of ice above the girls' fort. "He's planning something. I can't tell what he's doing, but I can faintly hear the sound of ice beams......Do you hear something Sango. Something sounds like it's falling." Kagome siad as she lookedup where the sound was comming from. "AAAIIIII!!!!" She screamed as she saw a huge pile of snow falling towards them. "Hit the deck!" she screamed as both girls hugged the ground and the mountain of snow fell on top of them. (Miroku and Inuyasha -.-*) "I thought that that part of her lesson plan was to use the fire spell before the snow hit them." Miroku said as he recovered from his laughs. Just as this was said, a wave of heat pulsed through the gym, melting all of the snow instantly. Kagome was standing there glaring at Inuyasha within what looked like a fireball. "Inuyasha, why is Kagome in a fireball?" Miroku asked. "No idea in hell. She looks like she's learned to surround herself using the Fire Wave technique. Let's see." He said as he pulsed a small Icicle in Kagome's direction. It melted ten feet before Kagome. "Ouch, that's hotter than I thought. She's pissed now. However, I must commend her on her use of attacks. Too bad it's not her doing. She got pissed off which triggered her youkai blood so now she's acting as if she's posessed with her true form in dormant. Just give her a few minutes." Inuyasha said and, as if on que, the fire around Kagome died and she collapsed from over- use of energy. "I'll carry her to her room for the night, then I'll show you your rooms. Breakfast is at six, Inchine will send you all a wake-up call at five-thirty. Sleep in, whatever, just be ready in time for school. I'm going to go get your school supplies from your houses. It's eleven twenty so you'd best get to bed quickly. Actually, use your remote to portal yorselves to your rooms. The spare rooms are in section 1D. Telaport there and choose a room. Then he walked off with Kagome in his arms as he led her to his living quarters. Kagome was awake but out of it when he laid her in his bed. Then he covered her up and went into the bathroom only to come out with some red- tinted water. "Kagome, you awake? I know that you are, I can hear your breathing differance between now and when you were out cold." He taunted her before she sat up and nearly fell off the bed from lack of ballence. "Huh? Why can't I sit without falling!" She gasped groggily as she nearly fell over again. "Kagome, drink this water. It will replenish your energy." He explained as he poured some into a small cup that he handed to the girl who was just trying to sit up right. "Inuyasha, I need my hands just to keep from falling.....I can't drink anything." The girl moaned as if half asleep. "Here." he said as he sat behind her as she fell backward. "I'll hold you, you drink that or else you'll be acting like your drunk for the rest of the night and most of tomarrow until you regain all of your energy." he said as he held her up by her shoulders as she drank the water. Within seconds of her first sip, Kagome's senses seemed to jump back to normal and she felt some of her power return. In five minutes, Kagome was at her best. "Woah, that stuff really works. What is it?" She asked as she layed ageanst his chest from exhaustian. She might have regained energy, but it was still eleven thirty and she was tired. "It's water with liquid energy mixed into it. My father made that before he died and he took the recipe on how to make it with him to the grave. "Get some sleep. You'll need it for tomarrow...." he began but stopped when he noticed that the girl was asleep. He pulled the blanket over her then rested his back on the head-boar. 'Feels nice.' Inuyasha mused as he watched the sleeping girl. 'She really is beautiful when she's in such a calm state........WOAH!!! Where the hell did that come from. Damn, I'm getting to be worse than the Miroku from my time was.' He felt like crying at the memory of his dead friends, but hey, at least he had their reincarnations and the new Miroku wasn't a perverted monk. 'They were great friends. "Damnit. I'm going soft..." he murmered before he let the blackness of sleep claim his body. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It was six in the morning when Inuyasha woke up. Kagome was still asleep with her head on his lap. There was a muffled sound from the main door to the hall. It sounded offly like, 'Giggles? Inuyasha thought. Who would be giggling? I'm alone except for Kagome, Inchine........' "MIROKU! SANGO! YOUR BOTH DEAD!" He bellowed before there were loud footsteps of running down the halls comming from beyond the door. "Hnn?" Kagome moaned at the loud noise that woke her up. She snuggled a bit closer to her pillow, or what she thought was, then she noticed that her pillow seemed to have it's own heat and that it was a bit hard. "Yipes!" She gasped as she opppened her eyes to see Inuyasha staring back at her. "Care to get off me? I'd rather not push you, you'll be in pain for a long time. I coul have lifted you off me, but you'd probably yell 'PERVERT' at me, so that wasn't an option either, so I just left you there. Too bad Sango and Miroku think that we're up to something that is rather perverted. Damn, that boy is more like his old form than he knows! What's worse, Sango, the one who alwayse slappped the old Miroku senseless for his perverted thoughts, is now just as bad! Ahh well, some things never change, except that keyhole in that door facing the bed which is about to change a lot. I'm going shopping for a new doorknob later." And Kagome could just giggle at the ranting Hanyou, then it dawned on her, SHE WAS LAYING ON HIS LAP!!! She darted off blushing madly. "Sorry, Sorry!" She gasped at the shocked half demon. Luckily for the two, the breakfast bell sounded and they headed down to eat until their raging blushes died down. "I vote wait a bit. Inchine will understand. If we go down there like our faces are, Sango and Miroku's hentai minds will go into overdrive, screw that, they'll kick in the afterburners!" The boy wispered so that nobody could hear. "I second that." was Kagome's redsponse. "So, did you two have a nice night.......together." Miroku teased the two. "Yeah actually, you perverte monk-in-training. You're more like your previous form than I care to let you know. Oh yeah, Sango," he motioned to the girl who was trying to eat calmly and hopefully, not be noticed, "You, the girl who would slap his lights out in your older form, is now almost as bad! I, using the power invested in me as a demon," he said trying to sound regal and powerful..."Completely hopeless." He finished in his usual tone. "Screw the conversation, what's for breakfast." Inuyasha said as he walked up to the table. Within the hour, everyone had their school supplies and they were in the portal room. Inuyasha had the Tetsusaiga strapped to his back, concealed by his spell. He opted to go with a form that looked just like him, except his demon features were gone and his hair was black. "That should do." he said as the computer activated the new portal which would lead them to the alley beside the school. With those thoughts, they jumped through the portal and landed in the alley. "Okay. I'll register in. Kagome, you come with me acting like you're helping me, you two perverts, head to your classes." he explained the plan to them, then went they're seperate ways. Kagome led a, seemingly confused, boy to the office. "Can I register into this school." Inuyasha asked and after an hour of lying and false explanations, Inuyasha and Kagome arrived in time for their second class (since they completely missed their first one). "Convenient how Sango, Miroku, you and I all have the same schedule plans, eh Kago." he wispered in a teasing woice. "Shut up! And don't call me Kago, I hat that......Inu!" she said as she bopped him on the head. "Feh, whatever.....Kago." He wispered again. And how ironic it was that Inuyasha stayed away from Kagome until lunch time. "Hey Inuyasha, do you want to join any clubs. You never even got to try archery last time." Kagome sugested which earned her a few confused looks from passing students. "feh." was her response and she took it as a sure, so she grabbid his arm and led him through the crowds. Ami, Yuka and Hojo were at the registration table as well. "Great. Soccer and basketball have open spaces." Inuyasha heard Hojo mutter as he filled out his own card for Archery, Fencing, and Basketball. "Hey Hojo. What sports are you entering in?" Kagome asked. "Oh. I'm in basketball and soccer and might try fencing. It sounds easy to swing a metal pole around and wack somebody with it. (Oh yeah, Hojo isn't head-over-heels for Kagome.......yet!). "Oh, Inuyasha is in basketball and fencing too. Maybe you guys could practice sometime." Kagome sugested to the boys who just looked at each other, then thrust his hand out to shake Inuyasha's hand. Inuyasha did the same, although slightly stunned at these strange human 'rituals'. "My names Hojo, what's yours?" Hajo greeted Inuyasha once they stopped shaking hands. "Name's Inuyasha. So, have you fenced before?" Inuyasha asked (you think that they're hitting it off pretty well, can you say rivals in more than one desire! I hope so, I don't have a demons nose but I sure can smell a conflict brewing!!!). "No, I think that it should be easy though. I alwayse have been fairly quick, so that should help." Hojo told the new boy. "Hey, when's the first meet." Inuyasha asked Hojo. "That's why I'm signing up. The first practice is tomarrow, the first competition is in three days. Are you new with swords too?" Hojo asked. "No, I'm very familiar with them. Why don't you come over to the Higurashi shrine after school, if it's allright with Kagome." Kagome nodded and Hojo looked a bit angry. "Why at Kagome's house. Why not your house or my house." Hojo said sounding a bit angry. "Oh, I'm living at the shrine for a while." Inuyasha explained as he punched himself on the top of his head. "Oh, sorry." Hojo said. "The Higurashi shrine, four o'clock, sound good." inuyasha sugested. "Sure." was the reply. Kagome invited Yuka and Ami to watch as well, they said yes just as the bell to resume classes went off. "Well, lunch got screwed." Inuyasha murmered and Hojo nodded sagely in agreement before walking off to their classes. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It was three o'clock and school had just ended. Ami and Yuka walked home with Kagome, Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha. Hojo was going to show up at four. They looked much like a big gang of teens, except that their backpacks said otherwise. They had used Kagome's cell phone to call all of their parents whom agreed that it was fine since Kagome's guardians were around to watch them. Inuyasha ran ahead (human speed 'till out of sight, then boost to demonic speed). He arrived at the house then activated a portal to get him to his castle. He shot to the weaponry room, grabbed his weapon sash with his other sword on it and the 'lightsaber' thingie, then went back to the shrine. He telaported into the living room and nearly gasped when he noticed that he'd been followed, but they haden't seen his portals to exit or return. "There you are." Yuka and ami said when they noticed Inuyasha. "Where are the others?" he asked them. "They'll catch up." ami said as Inuyasha climbed the stairs. "I've gotta change." Inuyasha told them as he continued his climb. When he came down, he was wearing his red fighting outfit which made Yuka gasp. "Wasn't that other kid who died, didn't he wear that!?" She asked the girls and Miroku who had just arrived a few moments prior. "Yeah, but he's dead. Must have started something." Miroku commented slyly. "Hey, where'd you get that outfit?" Ami asked Inuyasha as he tied the weapon sash around his weist, which was mysteriously devoid of 'lightsaber' like utinsils. He sheethed the Tetsusaiga and the other sword on his left side. "My father gave it to me." was Inuyasha's reply. "Hey, want any drinks. There's coke, lemonade, water.....pick one." Kagome said to her friends. Everyone told her what they wanted and sat down. "So, Inuyasha, are you good with a sword? I don't know anybody who has items like that, much less a teen." Yuka asked the mentioned boy. "Yeah, I'm pretty good with blades. They're a hobby of mine. Just don't get on my bad side when these are out." Inuyasha explained to the girls as he finished his lemonade. He pulled out his regular sword. "Well my friend, looks like your in need of a desperate sharpening." He said as he walked outside. "Does he alwayse talk to his swords?" Ami asked Kagome. "No, his parents died when he was five and he just came to live with us. He's a really nice guy once you get past the fact that he's got a gruff attitude towards newcommers. He's been on his own for so long that he dosen't know whom he can trust. Once your past that, he's a great guy." Kagome explained. "He didn't seam mean at all earlier." Yuka questioned the girl. "Would you be mean if there were adults around that think that they own the world?" Kagome questioned the girl back. "No, it makes sense. Where did he live before he came here?" Yuka answered only to ask another question. "I don't know, it's like he can't remember." Kagome quickly made up a reasonable story. "Too bad. He's really cute though. My kinda guy." Yuka said as she walked outside in the direction that Inuyasha went. "She's in for it now. I should have warned Inuyasha that Yuka was a big flirt. She's gonna end up with inuyasha swiping at her with his sword then stop it centameters in front of her face, then dash away while she's stunned, or at least that's how things went when he first met me." Kagome said as she sighed and counted down from three. When she reached zero, as if on que, there was a sound of a sword slicing through the air, a scream, and a few moments later, a Shocked looking Inuyasha walked in with Yuka in his arms who was out cold. Inuyasha laid her on the couch before turning abruptantly toward Kagome. "You could have warned me that I was dealing with the flirt queen of the mid-west. I would have been on guard and gotten away when I first heard her before she first saw me. That was very cruel......Kago." he finished in a sly tone. "Dang it Don't call me that!!!" a very pissed off Kagome screached. "Feh, Whatever...." he was about to say Kago but she beat him to it. "Got that.....Inu!" Damn, outdone again." was her response from him and he didn't look all too pleased. This was what Hojo saw when he walked in. "Hey guys....." his voice trailed off as he was met by glares from Inuyasha and Kagome. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: I feel bad for Hojo. I'll hate him later for being in'la-la land' over Kagome. Well, as of the moment, he's got a pissed off hanyou and girl with youkai power, both glaring daggers at him. Let's see what happens.